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Van Bramer library card bill expansion now law
Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed a bill into law last week that will expand the Library Card Act. Comment.
Letters
Jamaica Library grateful for funds
On behalf of Queens Library, I want to thank the voters on the Rockaway peninsula and City Councilman Eric Ulrich (D-Ozone Park) for allocating $700,000 in capital funding for improvements to Queens Library at Peninsula and for an automated library vender in Breezy Point. Comment.
Flushing
QC student introduces German novel to English readers
Getting published is no easy feat: It can take months, years even. So it came as a huge surprise to Queens College graduate student Anne Posten when she was told that her English translation of German writer Tankred Dorst’s “Der Schöne Ort” (“This Beautiful Place”) was being published by Hang Loose Press, a year before even completing her master’s of fine arts at the college. Comment.
Long Island City
Value of modern journalism focus of LaGuardia forum
A veteran foreign correspondent and author will explore the evolution of modern journalism during a discussion at LaGuardia Community College next week. Comment.
I Sit and Look Out
Margaret Mitchell backed black civil rights secretly
Recently, Elaine and I watched an “American Masters” program on Channel 13. It was about Margaret Mitchell, author of “Gone with the Wind.” Comment.
Books
Queens in Your Pocket will guide you thru boro
The Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Corona Park held a special event last month that introduced the new Queens in Your Pocket, a guide to the borough that contains articles on trendy neighborhood restaurants, hotels and local businesses. Comment.
St. Albans
Authors sell tomes at Black Spectrum Theatre’s first book fair
From a children’s book on how to conquer your fears to stories of the first black soldiers to fight in the Civil War, the first book fair Saturday at the Black Spectrum Theatre at Roy Wilkins Park had something for everyone. Comment.
Bayside
Queens locales come alive in anthology set in borough
As part of a sordid, dark plot, 25-year-old Nikki Lavin Sheridan drugged and drowned her father, Douglaston doctor George Sheridan, in the waters under the Throgs Neck Bridge — the same place her mother, Eileen Lavin, was murdered a quarter century ago. Comment.
Jamaica
Jamaica Avenue bookseller pens tome on giving up scams
About once a week, Michael Evans can be seen on Jamaica Avenue hawking his books — one autobiographical and the others a series about a man who kills snitches. Comments (2).
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